we're in real trouble, and you make me laugh at myself a lot. >> you want me to play you? >> steve, i'm afraid you understand me too well. >> i vote for that. that would be awesome. cnn's coverage continues right now. very good monday morning to y you. i'm jim sciutto. new coronavirus testing requirements go into effect for international travelers coming into the u.s. everyone, regardless of nationality or vaccination status traveling into the u.s. must now be tested within one day of departure. but we are learning at the same time some promising, new findings on the omicron variant out of south africa. new details, new data suggests the strain is leading to less

severe cases of covid there so far. dr. anthony fauci says he is optimistic though cautions it's too early to know for certain. >> thus far, it does not look like there's a great degree of severity to it, but we really got to be careful before we make any determinations that it is less severe or really doesn't cause any severe illness comparable to delta, but thus far, the signals are a bit encouraging regarding the severity. >> regarding the severity is key, that relates to hospitalizations. more good news as well, the cdc says that demand for vaccines in the u.s. is up. right now the u.s. is averaging more than 2.2 million tdoses pe day. moments ago the mayor of new york city announced he is adding a vaccine mandate for all private sector workers there by the end of the month. he's also now adding children 5 to 11 to vaccine passes for

indoor dining and entertainment. in new york you've already been required to show that card when entering restaurants for a number of weeks now. across the country, new cases in the u.s. on the rise. the u.s. averaging more than 100,000 new infections per day. that's the highest level we've seen in months. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean is at dulles international airport this morning, and senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. pete, let's begin with you. what should travelers in and out of the country prepare for now? >> reporter: well, jim, these changes just took effect at midnight. flights that are in the air right now are going to be impacted by this for the first time. passengers coming into the united states now need to get tested one day before their departure. the cdc puts the example like this. if your flight is on a monday, you can get tested any time on sunday, a one-day rule, not a 24-hour rule. proof of a negative coronavirus test you have to show to your airline. this is a shift from what it was

a three-day rule before and the cdc compressed this time line because of the concerns over the omicron variant. airlines say they are going to comply with this but they're really pushing back on the efficacy of all this. this is what united airlines ceo scott kirby told me. >> the reality is omicron is already out of south africa. it's already escaped, on every continent. covid is unique. covid is indemic. we need to learn to live with it but we're not going to learn to live with it locking down and shutting borders. the right answer is to get everyone vaccinated. >> reporter: remember this applies to foreign nationals and u.s. citizens, regardless of vaccination status. one other big change here also going into effect, the transportation-wide mask mandate, a federal rule. it was set to expire on january 18th, 2022, now it's been extended two months. the new expiration date march 18th, 2022 and it applies on all

public forms of transportation, planes, trains, buses, boats and also here in terminals, jim. >> elizabeth, when we first heard about omicron, there were real concerns this could be a marked change for the worse, but since then, the early data from south africa on omicron cases, particularly how severe they are, has been trending positive. what are we learning from the latest data? >> that's right. so let's think this through a little bit. a mutation that needs three things to be a true threat, one, more transmissible, two, needs to resist the vaccine to some extent and three t needs to cause severe disease. so this last one is what we're getting glimmers and i want to emphasize the word glimmers, just glimmers of possible and emphasize the word possible hope on this, and this is data out of south africa. so let's take a look. this is south african data on 42 patients with omicron. that's why i'm being so tentative here. it's such a small number of

patients, but these hospitalized patients, 70% of them were not dependent on oxygen. that is certainly a good sign, and in the last two weeks, the length of stay for covid patients in the hospital, well it's been about 8.5 days and it's now about 2.8 days. so that tells you that perhaps the dominant that's becoming stronger and stronger there omicron does not seem to be quite as damaging. people don't seem to get quite as sick from it but again, this is just dozens of patients, we need much more data than that but certainly this is much better than what everyone feared which is that this was say another delta, another variety that was possible of getting people very, very sick. we'll see what happens with omicron. >> more to learn, certainly as elizabeth cohen and pete muntean thanks to both of you. dr. paul offit say member of the fda's vaccine advisory committee

and doctor at children's hospital of philadelphia. dr. fauci said it's early but he's optimistic based on what he's seen so far. do you share that optimism? >> yes. this is a bad coronavirus trying to adapt itself to the human population. from the virus' standpoint it wants to become more contagious, that way it can continue to spread. but it also wants to become less viral, less likely to cause serious disease. it's never to the virus advantage to kill you. it needs you to reproduce itself. you may be seeing the natural evolution of an animal virus as it adapts itself to the human population. >> it's an interesting point and i don't want to get ahead of the data. i know you're a data guy and we have a lot more to learn from this. by the way, here in the u.s., delta remains dominant. remains to be seen how omicron fares in that battle. are you saying it's possible that omicron could take over in effect and be less dangerous than prior iterations of

coronavirus? >> that's true, to some extent an advantage to us. a virus that could knock out a more virulent strain like delta and evolve to what would be the best case scenario, evolve to essentially a common cold-like virus. we'll see how this progresses but i think we should be reassured by the fact that to date, all the evidence is that two doses for example of mrna containing vaccine still appears to protect against serious illness. we don't have any evidence that's not true. so i think that should reassure people. >> that's my next question, on the question of existing vaccine efficacy against omicron, again, it's early but we have heard some early comments from the makers from executives at the makers of those, both pfizer and moderna who seem to say and tell me if i'm reading this right, indications are vaccines might not protect as well against transmissibility of this but do against getting severe illness

ending up in the hospital. >> that's what you care about. the goal of all the vaccines we have is to prevent serious illness, prevent the illness that caused you go to the doctor, the hospital or the icu. so far these vaccines have done just that, done it for the first va variant the alpha variant and delta variant, protection against serious illness provided by these vaccines and in all likelihood that's true for the omicron variant. we'll see but i think the early indications is that you are going to be protected against serious illness with two doses of mrna containing vaccine. the booster dose can increase antibodies and decrease more mild or asymptomatic protection. you care about protection against serious illness. >> good to hear that and always good to get your expertise on that. let me ask the next question. we've seen in the past when a new variant comes out perhaps greater urgency among americans

to either get their first shot or boosters up to an average of 2.2 million doses per day, and i believe the data is just over 600,000 of that are first-time doses. so eating into that unvaccinated portion of the population. are those numbers significant enough to make a difference? >> it's encouraging. we still have tens of millions of people who have chosen not to vaccinate themselves or their children in this country. i just came off a week of being on service, we admitted five children to the hospital yesterday, a couple in the intensive care unit. the problem is not booster dosing. the problem is the children are not vaccinated even though they could have been, the parents are not vaccinated even though they could have been so it's really a matter of vaccinating the unvaccinated population and that's the key to getting on top of this pandemic. >> i was saying we had a graphic up as you were speaking and nice to see that spike as opposed to a spike in a rise in cases and the spike we showed you is a spike in the number of the folks getting their shots, as doctors, like dr. paul recommended

repeatedly. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. well, china says it is threatening to take "resolute counter measures" if the biden administration chooses to enact a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 beijing olympics. several sources say the administration will likely announce such a boycott this week and to be clear, what this means is no u.s. government officials would attend next year's winter games, but crucially the athletes would still be able to compete. cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz following all of this. arlette, what more are we hearing from the white house on this? is this set in stone? is there any consideration of that next step, right, of a full boycott without athletes going or is that not on the table? >> jim, this is the latest flash point, what is becoming an increasingly tense relationship with china. as the u.s. is expected to announce as soon as this week that u.s. government officials will not be attending the

olympic games in beijing this coming winter. now, it's an important distinction. this does not apply to those american athletes who will still be allowed to go and compete with these games. now, the white house has not made this official but it is expected to come this week as democrats and republicans had been pushing for such a diplomatic boycott in order to send a message to china, when it comes to their human rights abuses. now president biden had said for quite a few weeks that this was under consideration, but white house officials last month said that the issue of the beijing olympics did not come up during president biden's call with president xi jinping. china is upset about the reports that the u.s. is considering making this announcement this week. a spokesperson for the foreign ministry in china said the u.s. should stop politicizing sports and hyping up the so-called diplomatic boycott so as not to

affect china/u.s. dialogue and cooperation in important areas. the last u.s. boycott of an olympics game came in 1908 when president jimmy carter decided no the to send government officials or even athletes to the game in moscow over russia's moves or then the soviet union's moves regarding afghanistan. of course, this year's expected boycott will only apply to those government officials and u.s. athletes for the time being, are expected to be allowed to play in those games. >> that's certainly a marked difference and degree. arlette saenz at the white house, thanks very much. coming up next this hour, the parents of the suspect in the deadly michigan school shooting are now under arrest. there are pictures there. they're being held in the same jail as their son. now a third man is being questioned for possibly helping them try to hide from police. also ahead, congresswoman ilhan omar says she is confident house speaker nancy pelosi will take action this week against the republican colleague who made a series, not just one but

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authorities. according to his attorney, andrzej sikora did not really know what was going on and didn't know the couple had active warrants. it was unclear whether that man will face charges, as the school district superintendent has now requested an independent third party investigation into the deadly school shooting. prosecutors on the case tell cnn they have not ruled out pursuing charges against others, including school officials. >> it's under investigation so no. we haven't ruled out charging anyone. our first priority is keeping the community safe and holding the people accountable who could have prevented this. and right now, the crumbleys are those two people. none of this should have happened. a 15 1/2-year-old should not be sitting in jail facing life in prison. these children who were terrorized and killed and shot, none of it should have happened and it could have been prevented.

>> athena jones is live in oxford, michigan, this morning. at athena, what is the school saying now and what are you hearing about the possibility of school officials facing some responsibility here? >> reporter: good morning, jim. what's unclear is if school officials will be facing charges, clearly something that oakland county prosecutor karen mcdonald has not concluded or announced yet. we know the school superintendent, the school district requested an independent third party investigation into the events leading up to tuesday's shooting and also sharing their version of events. the upshot at no point did counselors or staff feel crumbley would be of harm to himself or others. we heard how they responded monday a teacher saw him searching for ammunition on his cell phone. ethan saying shooting sports were a family hobby. tuesday another teacher saw a

concerning drawing that ethan crumbley made that depicted among other things a semiautomatic gun and a bullet, a body with bullet holes in it appeared to be bleeding, ethan told the school that was part of the video game he was designing. school officials said he had no prior disciplinary infractions. his parents when asked to take him home flatly refused, left the school without their son, presumably to go to work according to the superintendent but decided because he had no prior infractions, he could be sent back to class and of course this is something raising a lot of questions. these discussions were never raised to the level of assistant principal or principal, another thing leaving parents and students here raising questions about how the school handled this. as for the third party investigation, michigan's attorney general has said her office has offered to have the attorney general's office conduct that investigation and suggested that it's not exactly appropriate to have the school deciding who is doing this investigation. she says i'm not accusing the

school district of anything in particular but in the past, sometimes these investigations end up being that third party investigator ends up carrying out the investigation in such a way as to protect those asking for the investigation. so we'll wait and see how the school district responds to that offer. jim? >> athena jones in oxford, thanks very much. let's discuss the law behind this now. cnn legal analyst arieva martin and jillian peterson. ariva, i'm curious about the law here. what does the law say about parental responsibility for this sort of thing. what is the standard here? what is the law that would have been broken potentially. >> what we know about the legal issue, the parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter. the prosecutor laid out a strong case for criminal negligence as it relates to the parents. as it relates to the school they

have ability to search back packs. they don't need the higher standard of probable cause so there was conditional suspicion a law had been broken, they had the right to check the backpack and they did not check ethan's backpack which is still troubling. the counselors said if they didn't get counseling for ethan within 48 hours they were going to alert child protective services. if they were going to do that it begs the question whether it was a wise decision on their part to allow him to return to the classroom and definitely given they didn't alert the principal and other school safety officers. >> i want to get to the school responsibilities in a moment. what would prosecution have to prove to get a conviction?

>> the parents had knowledge, ethan was troubled, that he had expressed some concerns about either harming himself or harming others in the school context, that he had access to the gun, that they failed to protect the gun and that they failed to take the steps that were reasonable to prevent this tragedy from happening. it goes beyond ordinary negligence. that's why the prosecutor laid out the text messages and access to the gun to the ignoring of really red flags apparent in this case and as it relates to the school the question becomes the same. was there gross negligence, negligence beyond ordinary negligence with respect to the school officials. >> jillian, you've done a lot of work in this space. schools i imagine deal with questions like this often and have to make judgments about what is truly worrisome and what can be dismissed. they clearly made the wrong judgment here. four kids are dead.

what are the standards? are there any? what are the practices the school put in place to try to make that judgment? >> schools are put in a really difficult position. we've been tracking both school shootings and threats of school shootings and this year they are at absolute record highs. schools are having to deal with is this a joke? is this just a drawing? is this a real threat? does the person really have capability, and there are no real standards for how they operate. what we find in our research is the best approach is to have a team, either a threat assessment team or a crisis response team, so no one person in the school is responsible for making these decisions, but you're gathering all this information with input from the principal, mental health professionals, security professionals to do the best assessment and make the best decision about how to move forward. >> do you worry, jillian, here that the focus is misplaced?

i've covered a bagillian sadly school shootings. it's an american epidemic, and one refrain, you hear a host of refrains when they happen. the police missed this, the parents missed this, the kid, et cetera, for a while you arm the. now the school should have been able to spot this, assess the mental health and so on and take the gun away, report it to authorities. do you worry that the focus is on the wrong core issue? >> yeah, doing the research for our book, we interviewede perpetrators of shootings of families and survivors and what does the pathway to violence look like for these individuals. the thing that we found is that the circumstances of the oxford shooting of the same we see again and again and again, white male student of the school with a trauma history who is leaking

their plans, telling other people in crisis, actively suicidal, taking guns from their parents. it's the same pattern over and over. but that means we can really put things in place to prevent this from happening once we recognize that consistent pathway. >> areva, what is the path forward for the parents? i'm curious, at a minimum they're not showing up for the police when asked. it hasn't been established legally they were running or trying to make a run for the canadian border but they certainly didn't show up when they were supposed to. does that affect or undermine their defense going forward? >> well, it remains to be seen, jim, if they will be charged with absconding or evading the police. the prosecutor hasn't spoken out since they were actually apprehended and we saw the arraignment over the weekend so it's not clear if additional charges will be filed against the parents and then as you said at the top of the show, there is this individual, 65-year-old man or so who gave them access to

this commercial building in downtown detroit and also remains to be seen if that individual will be charged with obstructing justice or somehow aiding and abetting the two parents. the prosecutor made it pretty clear this is an ongoing investigation and there could be additional charges not only against any individual that helped the parents but potentially additional charges against the parent. he hasn't ruled out the possibility of charges against school officials as well. >> well, a lot of legal questions to be answered. one thing we know for certain is four teenagers are dead, shot in their school. thanks so much to both of you. >> thank you. >> thanks, jim. still ahead this hour, just days after those teenagers were shot and killed at their school, a gop congressman thought this was the appropriate christmas card photo to share. why critics are slamming kentucky representative thomas massey, next. look at those guns. and we are moments away from the opening bell on wall street. stock futures are mostly up this morning, this after wall street

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congresswoman ilhan omar says she is confident democrat also not let representative lauren boebert off the hook. speaker nancy pelosi vowed to take decisive action against the colorado republican this week after house minority leader kevin mccarthy refused to hold boebert accountable for making not just one but a series of anti muslim remarks. >> mccarthy is a liar and a coul coward. he doesn't have the ability to condemn the bigoted anti muslims rerick trafficked by a member of -- >> why doesn't he have the ability? >> because this is who they are. >> joining me to discuss, rached bates, coauthor of "the political playbook."

rachel, good to have you this morning. we know mccarthy's not going to go any further but are democratic leaders themselves reluctant to go any further in penalizing boebert? >> they have up until now. it's been more than a week and a half since this controversy exploded. the reality is there's growing pressure on nancy pelosi from the prerogative community, omar and her allies to do something. a feeling if they were going to rebuke paul gosar who posted this anime video of himself killing alexandria ocasio-cortez a few weeks ago, why not the staple for boebert, a double standard for islamophobia. there's pressure on pelosi to do something. a week ago i talked to senior democrats reluctant to do anything, and the reason is because boebert in this instance unlike past instances with republicans actually issued an apology. people will say it was a phony apology, it wasn't sincere. a lot of democrats feel that way

but there was a fear of rebuking and doing something against a member who did make an effort, tweeted an apology and reached out to ilhan omar, they obviously got in an ugly spat on that phone call but there was a reluctance to do that. we have to see if this pressure is enough to sort of push pelosi this week to do something. there's certainly a lot of members talking about it on the hill. >> so this tweet you're familiar with, sparking a lot of reaction this week and understandable. one, why a republican member of congress would consider this christmas appropriate, we can show this image on screen and coming days after a school shooting in oxford, michigan. let's show that picture. so this is his family, "santa, please bring ammo." i want to draw attention to the weapon thomas massey is holding either an m-60 or modified to look like an m-60, a high velocity large round in the vietnam war it was used to defend hillsides and he was holding it in the christmas

photo here. what does this is a about the current state of guns in politics in this country? he clearly, this was not accidental. this was celebrate. i imagine he's probably fund-raising off of that now. >> absolutely. incredibly insensitive to the moment we're in right now. look, the reality is that republicans when it comes to guns and second amendment even after these tragedies, they more so cling to their right to bear arms and so you have a lot of republicans for years who have used images of them holding guns, standing in front of guns. >> almost required. >> exactly to win primaries, to raise money, but specifically coming after this shooting where a 15-year-old was gifted a gun for christmas, and went and shot up his school and killed a bunch of people it's outrageous but outrage unfortunately in this time makes money and makes people popular and so in the republican party right now you have someone like thomas massey who i wouldn't be surprised will

take the criticism of this tweet and rebukes of the tweet and try to raise more money from it. >> democrats have the white house, the house and the senate granted by small margins but they have it. is there any appetite or momentum among democratic leaders to push gun control legislation? >> yes. >> other than chris murphy? >> chris murphy was on tv talking about it yesterday. nobody's talking about it. >> no. >> it's the sad reality, we saw this a few years ago in sandy hook where a bunch of elementary school kids were gunned down and nothing was done in washington and so i wouldn't expect anything to change in the next few weeks and months. >> you keep seeing pictures of young kids who lost their lives in schools. rachael bade, thanks so much. president biden is now considering new sanctions against vladimir putin's inner circle, this as the two are set to speak directly tomorrow. details on what that call will look like as russia amasses more troops and weapons on the ukrainian border.

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new this morning, sources tell cnn u.s. officials are now weighing a wide set of sanctions on russia, including targeting members of vladimir putin's inner circle in order to deter putin from launching a full-scale invasion of ukraine. this comes as president biden is set to speak with putin via video call tomorrow. their call comes amid escalating tensions after new u.s. intelligence findings estimate

russia could begin a military offensive in ukraine in a matter of months, as soon as next month, as it amasses up to 175,000 troops along the border. joining me to discuss, andrea kendall taylor, former deputy national intelligence interfor russia and eurasia, senior fellow at the center of new american security. good to have you on this morning. >> hi, jim. how are you? >> i'm curious, what sanctions in your view would bite here? because it's been seven years since russia, invaded, annexed and now controls crimea. it puts an economic price on russia but not moving them, not changing the calculus on the ground. what kinds of sanctions in your view, would make a difference in. >> it's a great question and i think it's important for us all to remember how difficult it will be to deter president putin in this situation. there are very few issues other than ukraine that he cares about more. sanctions have to be an important part of the package. it is important for the united

states and its allies to raise the economic costs, should putin escalate and we know the administration has said that they have all options on the table. last week, secretary of state blinken was as nato where he talked about u.s. willingness to use economic measures it has previously refrained from using so that could include things like sanctions on russian oligarchs, on the russian energy sector and russian sovereign debt and also important to recognize though that if we move forward in that direction, it's important that we do that in very close consultation with our european allies because many of those economic measures impact their economies much more than ours because they're more closely intertwined. i would say i don't think that sanctions in and of themselves will be enough to deter putin and so we'll be looking to the administration i think for some additional steps to try to shape putin calculus. >> and impact the international

energy markets and drive up oil prices and everyone pays in effect. the other piece of this, and we've seen this, is accelerating or increasing lethal military aid to ukrainian forces. so far that's included things like toe miss sools, anti tank armor piercing missile by the u.s. applied before and there are some on the hill here impatient for more and quicker assistance. does that military assistance, in your view, change the calculus by raising the potential costs of a russian invasion? >> i think it's got to be another important piece of the package. we have to help ukraine defend itself, and again, like you're saying, raise the cost that russia would face for any escalation. but i think what the missing piece so far is, is for the united states to in addition to those costs to talk about a broader kind of have a broader security discussion with president putin and articulate if he were to invade in ukraine or escalate the situation, it would force the u.s. to change

its broader security posture in the region. so it would really give us no choice other than to put more forces into europe, introduce new weapons systems like theater missile defense or move forward with a permanent presence in the balanc baltics. it might be to putin you might have some small gain in ukraine but it would change the security architecture in europe ways putin would not like and there are very few things other than ukraine that putin cares about but i think that broader security conversation might be one of those. >> you have russia demanding publicly some sort of guarantee that ukraine will never join nato. by the way, we should note that's over ukraine's objections. we should also know nato s secretary-general was on the broadcast that should be up to the uk and nato, not russia. do you see a scenario the u.s. doesn't end on ukraine to make a

commitment to russia that staves off an invasion for now, but leaves ukraine high and dry, by making commitment it's not prepared to make itself? >> no, i don't think that is something that the administration should consider at all. secretary stoltenberg made a brilliant case. it has been longstanding u.s. policy we don't accept russia's veto over the foreign policy decisions of its neighbors. it doesn't have a choice over nato's decisions either. that sayis a non-starter and no something this administration would even entertain. >> that would be good news for ukrainian officials. i know they'rer nervous about that possibility. andrea campbell taylor, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. on capitol hill and the white house flags are flying at half staff in honor of long-time gop senator former presidential

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very good monday morning to you. we begin this morning with encouraging news on what we know with the coronavirus pandemic. first new findings on the omicron variant preliminary data from south africa suggests omicron cases are less severe, that is so far, but early indications.